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Dolphins & Octopus at Cabo Pearce

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  • Post date 2018-01-23
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By Nautilus Staff on January 23rd, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

For me, it was a wonderful first experience at Cabo Pearce. Despite unfavorable surface conditions, we encountered a playful small group of Dolphins. An exposed octopus gave guests a colorful display of its camouflage capabilities as it moved along the bottom shortly before the return of the dolphin that greeted us at the beginning of […]

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  • Tags cabo pearce, dolphin, giant pacific octopus, Nautilus Explorer, nautilus luxury liveaboard, Octopus
Manta Love

A guest recounts her amazing underwater exploration while diving at Socorro Island…

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2015-06-16
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By Nautilus Staff on June 16th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

Roca Partida has lived up to its hype and then some. The two day stay began with an eventful exploration of the ancient magma plug. Schools of fish including almaco jack pairs, horse-eye jacks and more white-tip sharks than I could count, and of course, the incredible giant mantas. All of this peppered with yellow-tail […]

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  • Tags dive, Dive Mexico, galapagos sharks, giant manta, giant pacific octopus, Hammerhead shark, liveaboard, mantalove, Nautilus Explorer, Revillagigedos, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, scuba, silky shark, socorro island, The Boiler, whitetip

Thousands and thousands of Alaska king crabs

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  • Post date 2009-06-19
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By Nautilus Staff on June 19th, 2009 in Archive

Location: Secret location, Admiralty Island, southeast Alaska I can’t disclose the location of our second dive of the day. It’s too dangerous for our friends – thousands of Alaska king crabs. Happy to report that we did our first scuba splash this morning on the wreck of the large steamship State of California in Gambier Bay, Admiralty Island.  It was an […]

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  • Tags Admiralty Island, Alaska king crab, giant pacific octopus, sea cucumbers, State of California

Fast forward to the end of Alaska 2008

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  • Post date 2008-08-16
By Nautilus Staff on August 16th, 2008 in Archive

Location: Steveston, Vancouver, British Columbia Have to admit that I ended up a little behind with my Captain’s log entries.  Especially once Charlie and Emily, my amazing 5 and 8 year old kids, joined me for a couple of weeks onboard.  Seeing British Columbia and Alaska through their eyes is very refreshing and entertaining.   They loved the orcas and […]

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  • Tags coral invertebrate life, diving, giant pacific octopus, humpback whales, orcas, sealions

Kermode Bear on the Beach

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  • Post date 2008-07-23
By Nautilus Staff on July 23rd, 2008 in Archive

Our morning dive on the wreck of the Transpac was outstanding as usual with visibility estimated at 80 feet or more. The Transpac is without a doubt the most amazing wreck I have ever seen – standing upright as it does with the transom of the 180 foot fish boat plunked down on a ledge at 285 feet with the bow at 110 feet and the wreck aligned almost perfectly upright on the sheer wall. Did a dock dive in the afternoon and those divers who stayed under the pilings had a fabulous dive with giant pacific octopus sightings as well as 20 plus ratfish (aka chimera). We’re off to Shushartie Bay (Dillon Rock) and Browning Wall tonight and then in to Vancouver to finish off this very fine trip.

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  • Tags bc forest service, British Columbia, Browning Wall, Butedale, chimeras, dillion rock, dock dive, ghost town, giant pacific octopus, kermode bear, princess royal island, ratfish, sushartie bay, transpac, vancouver, wreck diving

A Fabulous New Dive Site at Inian Island

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  • Post date 2008-07-14
By Nautilus Staff on July 14th, 2008 in Archive

I am always up for trying 2 or 3 exploratory new dives on a trip if our guests are “up” for it. The folks on this trip are terrific sports and up for exploratory diving. We lucked out today with the discovery of a beautiful, albeit current-sensitive, pinnacle loaded with invertebrate life including corals, sponges and anemones as well as a giant pacific octopus and wolf eels.

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  • Tags Alaska, Anemones, corals, exploration dives, exploratory diving, giant pacific octopus, Icy Strait, Inian Island, invertebrate life, sponges, wolf eels

Achingly Beautiful Inlet in Alaska

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  • Post date 2008-07-10
By Nautilus Staff on July 10th, 2008 in Archive

Just imagine calm glassy water with the vivid green of tall spruce, hemlock and fir trees towering along the shoreline and then steep granite cliffs that transition into snow covered mountains rising over 3000 feet right above us. Top it off with a roaring waterfall and the odd grizzly bear wandering around the estuary and it becomes hard to imagine anything more beautiful.

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  • Tags Alaska, Baranof Island, evergreens, giant pacific octopus, grizzly bears, hidden inlet, waterfalls

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